Gigabit Internet Speedtest

nlel1975 · 24 Oct 2012 at 19:00

For those that wish to know here is a gigabit internet speedtest result obtained when testing against the nearest server...

So now you know what to expect from a gigabit fibre optic connection.

Nickyyy · 24 Oct 2012 at 19:04

Awesome speed.

KIA · 24 Oct 2012 at 19:24

Find a better speedtest.net server.

ChrisD. · 24 Oct 2012 at 19:53

KIA said:
Find a better speedtest.net server.

Exactly. I'd be wanting 1Gbit myself.

ci_newman · 24 Oct 2012 at 19:56

Unfortunately, that one speedtest used your entire allowance for the month

Woden · 24 Oct 2012 at 19:58

Aren't you missing well over 200Mb?

nlel1975 · 24 Oct 2012 at 20:40

Woden said:
Aren't you missing well over 200Mb?

A gigabit connection will never actually reach 1000mbit/s download speed and the result is still very fast don't you agree?

Sin_Chase · 24 Oct 2012 at 20:44

JT Fibre I see.

Waiting for it to get wholesaled out as JTs 50GB a month cap on a 1Gbits connection is nothing short of ludicrous.

KIA · 24 Oct 2012 at 21:15

nlel1975 said:
A gigabit connection will never actually reach 1000mbit/s download speed

It will.

nlel1975 · 24 Oct 2012 at 21:40

Sin_Chase said:
JT Fibre I see.

Waiting for it to get wholesaled out as JTs 50GB a month cap on a 1Gbits connection is nothing short of ludicrous.

Just pointing out the speed, saying nothing about the 50GB a month cap.

nlel1975 · 24 Oct 2012 at 21:42

KIA said:
It will.

I admit that I expected the speedtest result to be higher perhaps 870mbit/s at most but the result obtained is still several times better then a 100mbit/s connection which is the next stop downwards.

ChrisD. · 24 Oct 2012 at 22:24

nlel1975 said:
A gigabit connection will never actually reach 1000mbit/s download speed

Why not?

nlel1975 · 24 Oct 2012 at 22:40

MilanoChris said:
Why not?

There are technical reasons which means that *only* 564mbit/s download is really rather good.

Its an improvement over the 100mbit/s connection anyway.

Woden · 24 Oct 2012 at 22:42

nlel1975 said:
There are technical reasons which means that *only* 564mbit/s download is really rather good.

Its an improvement over the 100mbit/s connection anyway.

Then they should not be selling it as 1Gb, as you can't actually get that.

nlel1975 · 24 Oct 2012 at 22:52

Woden said:
Then they should not be selling it as 1Gb, as you can't actually get that.

Wouldn't be the first time a broadband supplier over sold their service. Technically they can call it a gigabit because it is based on gigabit technology even if you cannot actually attain that speed.

Its like when I had 512kbit/s ADSL which if you convert to bytes by dividing by 8 you get 64Kbytes/s. I never saw a download above 55Kbytes/s meaning the connection was maxed out 440kbit/s a little way off the theoretical 512kbit/s.

Phemo · 24 Oct 2012 at 23:08

Yes but overheads on a gigabit link should see you reaching throughput somewhere in the region of 900 to 960Mbit/sec, not 565Mbit/sec.

It's true that it's still very fast, but it shouldn't be sold as gigabit if customers are expected to see over 400Mbit 'overheads'. A few percent overhead is a reasonable expectation but 44% is not

Silly Goose On The Loose · 24 Oct 2012 at 23:13

It's like advertising broadband as up to 8Mb, when the max one can get is actually 7.15!

Phemo · 24 Oct 2012 at 23:20

Gigabit said:
It's like advertising broadband as up to 8Mb, when the max one can get is actually 7.15!

While I agree that the ATM overheads thing was a bit of a joke, at least 7.15Mbit was 89% of the maximum. In this case the result is 56% of the maximum.

However let's be honest. If you're seeing over 500Mbit on a home connection then you're going to be more than happy anyway. There's also the possibility that speedtest.net's servers are actually a bit crap and you'd see higher throughput from elsewhere.

ChrisD. · 24 Oct 2012 at 23:24

nlel1975 said:
Wouldn't be the first time a broadband supplier over sold their service. Technically they can call it a gigabit because it is based on gigabit technology even if you cannot actually attain that speed.

Its like when I had 512kbit/s ADSL which if you convert to bytes by dividing by 8 you get 64Kbytes/s. I never saw a download above 55Kbytes/s meaning the connection was maxed out 440kbit/s a little way off the theoretical 512kbit/s.

The speedtest in the OP is bits per second. A 1 Gbit connection can reach 1Gbit download speed.

nlel1975 said:
There are technical reasons which means that *only* 564mbit/s download is really rather good.

Please, enlighten me as to what these technical reasons are.

Woden · 25 Oct 2012 at 00:25

nlel1975 said:
Wouldn't be the first time a broadband supplier over sold their service. Technically they can call it a gigabit because it is based on gigabit technology even if you cannot actually attain that speed.

Its like when I had 512kbit/s ADSL which if you convert to bytes by dividing by 8 you get 64Kbytes/s. I never saw a download above 55Kbytes/s meaning the connection was maxed out 440kbit/s a little way off the theoretical 512kbit/s.

Its not the first time, but that doesn't make it right.

The OP is getting almost half what he is paying for!

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